Patkau Quotes & Sayings

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups. — Robert Lacey

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life. — Darnell Lamont Walker

This was why he had become a master thief, to achieve this theft of thefts, this masterpiece of larceny. All the time, fascinating and terrible Caverna had been his goal. Whilst other Cartographers had sighed in vain after the beauty of her treacherous geography, he had decided to win her with cunning and threats.

All along Caverna had been his opponent and his prize, and she had never suspected it for a moment. He had fooled her, fought her and defeated her. She would be furious, no doubt, would hate him, rail against him and look for ways to destroy him, but he had outmanoeuvred her and now she had no choice but to play things his way. Unlike her earlier favourites, he was her lord, not a plaything to be tossed aside when she was bored.

And yet, for the first time in ten years, he found himself at something of a loss. I have succeeded. I have won. I rule the city. I wonder what I was planning to do with it? — Frances Hardinge

Smile like a flower; appreciate to empower. — Debasish Mridha

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and what I love about it is it delves into both sides of our cultural past, and it puts more of a human face on the Native Americans. — Matthew Settle

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment. — Christopher Hitchens

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to? — Sarah Waters

Life has its insidious way of crawling its way back into your sphere and you're dumbed down again by so many distractions including work obligations, social niceties and mountains of clothes washing. — Josh Langley

I'm a little different from the average dude because I'm on high-def TV now. — Ray Romano

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. — Mark Twain

Your memories are like the air I breathe. I don't have to keep checking on it every now and then to make sure whether I am doing it or not. It happens all by itself. But the moment I try to stop it and hold it back forcefully, I start craving for it more and before I could even know I will be fighting to get more of it so that I could survive. — Akshay Vasu

You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right. — David Gemmell

Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets? — Tom Peters